On April 6, 2012, the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin continued The David Foster Wallace Symposium with the event "A Life through the Archive." Cultural critic and reporter Seth Colter Walls and D.T. Max, staff writer for The New Yorker, spoke with writer and historian Douglas Brinkley about the life and work of David Foster Wallace through his archive.
Wallace's archive is housed at the Ransom Center.